30 Notable alumni of
University College Ghent
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University College Ghent is 1366th in the world, 474th in Europe, and 9th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from University College Ghent sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lukas Dhont
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Lukas Dhont is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, Girl, premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm awards. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019. His second feature film, Close, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where he shared the Grand Prix with Claire Denis' Stars At Noon. In 2023, Close was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film representing Belgium.
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Felix van Groeningen
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- screenwritertheatrical directorfilm producerperforming artistscenographer
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Felix van Groeningen is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He is known for The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and Belgica (2016), with the former being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. He made his English-language debut with the biographical drama Beautiful Boy (2018) and was awarded with the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for The Eight Mountains (2022).
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Philippe Herreweghe
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- composerchoir directorconductor
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Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster.
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Frans Masereel
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- draftspersonprintmakerwood engravergraphic artistvisual artist
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Frans Masereel was a Belgian painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France. He is known especially for his woodcuts which focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over 40 wordless novels in his career, and among these, his greatest is generally said to be Passionate Journey.
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Jonas Geirnaert
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- politicianfilm directorcomics artistcabaret performeranimator
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Jonas Geirnaert is a Belgian animator. He studied animation at the KASK in Ghent. In May 2004, he won the Short Film Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his animated short Flatlife (11 min). The first minute of the film was the only portion with sound because it was a student project that was unfinished at the time of the selection entry deadline.
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Constant Permeke
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- artistdraftspersonvisual artistpaintersculptor
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Constant Permeke was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish Expressionism.
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Georges Minne
- Enrolled in University College Ghent
- Studied in 1883-1886
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- draftspersonpaintersculptordesigner
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George Minne (born Georgius Joannes Leonardus Minne; 30 August 1866 – 18 February 1941) was a Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealized depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling Youth" sculpture series. A contemporary of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Minne's work shows many similarities in both form and subject matter to the Viennese Secessionists, the fathers of Art Nouveau.
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Dirk Brossé
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- trumpeterfilm score composerconductorcomposeruniversity teacher
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Dirk, Knight Brossé is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works. Brossé has also composed extensively for stage, cinema, television. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award. Dirk Brossé is currently music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and of the Ghent Film Festival. John Williams chose him as Principal Conductor of the Star Wars in Concert World Tour. Brossé is also professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Dirk Brossé has conducted international orchestras, both at home and abroad. Amongst them, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Basel, Madrid, Porto, Birmingham, Ulster, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Queensland, St Petersburg, Los Angeles and Boston. In 2008, he made his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, at the request of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, he wrote The Hallow-e'en Dances. This Halloween-inspired work is especially written for age-old, traditional Chinese instruments. Brossé recently composed Haiku Cycle 1, written for Jessye Norman and based on Haiku by Herman Van Rompuy.
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Raoul Servais
- Enrolled in University College Ghent
- Studied in 1946-1950
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- visual artistfilm directorcomics artistdirectoranimator
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Raoul Servais was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK).
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Valerius de Saedeleer
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- visual artistpainter
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Valerius de Saedeleer or Valerius De Saedeleer was a Belgian landscape painter, whose works are informed by a Symbolist and mystic-religious sensitivity and the traditions of 16th-century Flemish landscape painting. He was one of the main figures in the so-called first School of Latem which in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernist trends in Belgian painting and sculpture.
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Gustave Van de Woestijne
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- visual artistpainter
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Gustave Van de Woestijne was a Belgian expressionist painter.
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Gustave De Smet
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- visual artistpainter
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Gustave Franciscus De Smet was a Belgian painter. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, he was one of the founders of Flemish Expressionism. His younger brother, Léon De Smet, also became a painter.
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Frits Van den Berghe
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- draftspersongraphic artistprintmakerpainterillustrator
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Frits Van den Berghe was a Belgian expressionist and surrealist painter and illustrator.
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Constant Montald
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- draftspersonmuralistteacherpaintersculptor
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Constant Montald was a Belgian painter, muralist, and teacher.
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François-Auguste Gevaert
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- composertheoristwriteracademic musicianmusicologist
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François-Auguste Gevaert was a Belgian musicologist and composer.
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Walter De Buck
- Enrolled in University College Ghent
- Studied in 1954
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- singersculptor
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Walter De Buck was a Belgian singer, sculptor and the founder of the modern Gentse Feesten (Ghent Festival).
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Dirk Braeckman
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- photographertheatrical directorvisual artistcreator
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Dirk Braeckman is a Belgian photographer who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. The artist studied photography and film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1977 until 1981.
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Jan Frans De Boever
- Enrolled in University College Ghent
- Studied in 1896
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- painter
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Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made illustrations in gouache for Charles Baudelaire's famous Les Fleurs du mal for the Ghent collector and art patron Léon Speltinckx with 157 gouaches. While he was a successful artist during most of his lifetime, his megalomaniac character made him a solitary and isolated individual.
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Alfred Bastien
- Enrolled in University College Ghent
- Studied in 1882
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- draftspersonvisual artistpainterteacher
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Alfred Théodore Joseph Bastien was a Belgian artist, academic, and soldier.
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Aimée de Jongh
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- animatorcomics artistillustrator
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Aimée de Jongh is a graphic novelist and animator, whose books have been published in more than 30 countries. She has won numerous international awards for her graphic novels and was nominated for three Eisner Awards for Days of Sand and Sixty Years in Winter. Her books have received the Prix Saint-Michel, the Atomium Comic Strip Prizes and the International Manga Award.
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Joseph Paelinck
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- painter
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Joseph Paelinck, was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.
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Gerda Dendooven
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- theatrical directorillustratorvideographeractorcreator
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Gerda Dendooven is a Belgian illustrator. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Gouden Uil, the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs and the Boekenpauw on several occasions.
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Charel Cambré
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- comics artist
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Charel Cambré is a Flemish Belgian comics artist and author.
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Jean Noté
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- opera singer
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Jean-Baptiste Noté was a Belgian operatic baritone. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 1884 with first prizes in singing and lyrical declamation. He made his professional opera debut in 1885 at the Opéra de Lille as Lord Enrico Ashton in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. From 1887–1889 he was committed to the Théatre Royal in Antwerp. He then became a member of the Opéra National de Lyon where he had major success in the operas of Richard Wagner; especially the parts of Friedrich of Telramund in Lohengrin and Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser. He was also admired at that theatre as Roland in Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde. He left Lyon in 1893 to join the roster of principal artists at the Paris Opera where he remained for the rest of his career. He made his debut in Paris in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. He continued to perform with that company up until his death.
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Karel Miry
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- politiciancomposerconductormusicologist
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Karel Miry was a Belgian composer. He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch and is known as the composer of the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw, the national anthem of Flanders, for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics.
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Geo Verbanck
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- medalistsculptorvisual artist
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Geo Verbanck (28 February 1881 – 12 December 1961) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist.
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Anna De Weert
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- visual artistpainterprose writeressayist
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Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert was a Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminist style.
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Max Pinckers
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- photographer
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Max Pinckers is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels.
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Walter Hus
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- composermusicianpianistcreatorperforming artist
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Walter Hus is a Belgian composer and musician.
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Florimond Van Duyse
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- politicianwriterethnomusicologistcomposermusicologist
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Florimond Van Duyse was a Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist.
